Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈnɪəɹɪst/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈnɪɹɪst/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Preposition
Closest to.
- Examples
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Mercury is the planet nearest the Sun.
More examples (1)
Fastening one end of this at that point of the trunk of the tree which was nearest the peg, he unrolled it till it reached the peg and thence further unrolled it, in the direction already established by the two points of the tree and the peg, for the distance of fifty feet[…]
Adverb
(superlative of ‘near’ or ‘close’) within the shortest distance
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that was the time he came nearest to death